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Mastitis

Mastitis in dairy cows is often caused by infection. The udder of the cow will be swollen, harder, and the body temperature will be increased .The milk of the infected animal will be yellow in colour, curd like consistency and sometimes blood might mix with milk .Wash the udder of the animal and keep it clean always.

Herbal and medicinal products required for a cow:

Aloe Vera - 200 grams (I leaf)
Turmeric - 50 g
Lime - 5 grams (the size of a tamarind seeds)

Method of Treatment: (External application)

The above products are ground in an Attukal mortar and made into a solid state. Then take a hand full of the mixture, add water to it and make into a diluted state. Apply this to the udder of the infected animal.  Apply this mixture for 10 times a day until the swelling reduces.

Stomach Bloat (Bloat)
Stomach bloat is caused due to the change in the intake of fodder. It is caused due to intake of  grain and of green fodders .
Herbal and medicinal products required for a cow:

Betelvine 10 Nos.
Pirandai-(Cissus Quadrangularis) 10 Nos.
Onions -15 Nos.
Ginger- 15 Nos.
Pepper- 10 Nos.
Cumin -25 gram
Tumeric-10 gram

Treatment: (oral)
Cumin and pepper are powered and mixed with the other mentioned ingredients. To this mixture jaggery is added, made into small balls  which is coated with rock salt (required salt - 100 g) and rubbed on the surface of the tongue. All these balls are fed entirely at the same  to the infected cow.

 

Foot & Mouth disease
Foot and mouth is a viral disease. Blisters appears on the mouth and tongue of the affected animal. The saliva drips from the mouth like a  string. Wound appears on the foot of the diseased animal and the leg will be swollen. Don’t feed the milk in the udder of the diseased animal  to the young ones .Vaccination is amust to prevent the disease.

Herbal and medicinal products required for a cow

Grated coconut - 1 coconut
Cumin seeds - 50 g
Fenugreek - 30 g
Turmeric -10 g
Jaggery (black) - 20 g

Method of Treatment -: (oral intake for a cow)
Cumin, fenugreek, turmeric, grated coconut are ground and mixed with jaggery and fed twice a day for for at least 3. When fed for 5 days the animals gets better.Lift the head of the animal and feed the medicine slowly inside its mouth..

 Foot lesions
Herbal and medicinal products needed:

Acalipha indica (Kubaimeni)
Garlic 10 Nos.
Tumeric 100g
Gingelly oil or Illupai oil

Method of Treatment: (external application)

The above mentioned first three medicinal products are ground and boiled in Iluppai and Gingelly oil. Wash the legs  of the infected animal with water which contains salt and  turmeric then wipe the wet area with a clean dry cloth, later apply the medicine.

 Poison bite:

Bites of poisonous species viz., scorpion, wasp, bumblebee, Centipede, and small snakes causes rashes, swelling, stomach bloat skin, dripping of saliva from the mouth, suffocation  the body swelling, stomach bloat, are the symptoms found in sheep.

Herbal and medicinal products needed:

Siriyanakai leaves 15 Nos. Betelvine 5 Nos.
Pepper - 10 Nos. Pseudo stem juice-100g
Cumin seeds - 15 g Salt-15 gram
Onion -10 Nos. Jaggery-100g

Treatment:
Little cumin, and pepper is ground and mixed with other ingredients. To it 100 grams jaggery is added along with other products and made into small pellets and rubbed in on the tongue and fed once.

Updated on Jan, 2015
 
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